The interplay of epigenetic marks during stem cell differentiation and development

Y Atlasi, HG Stunnenberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Chromatin, the template for epigenetic regulation, is a highly dynamic entity that is constantly
reshaped during early development and differentiation. Epigenetic modification of chromatin …

Formative pluripotency: the executive phase in a developmental continuum

A Smith - Development, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
The regulative capability of single cells to give rise to all primary embryonic lineages is
termed pluripotency. Observations of fluctuating gene expression and phenotypic …

[HTML][HTML] Interspecies chimerism with mammalian pluripotent stem cells

J Wu, A Platero-Luengo, M Sakurai, A Sugawara… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Interspecies blastocyst complementation enables organ-specific enrichment of xenogenic
pluripotent stem cell (PSC) derivatives. Here, we establish a versatile blastocyst …

[HTML][HTML] Derivation of pluripotent stem cells with in vivo embryonic and extraembryonic potency

Y Yang, B Liu, J Xu, J Wang, J Wu, C Shi, Y Xu, J Dong… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Of all known cultured stem cell types, pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) sit atop the landscape of
developmental potency and are characterized by their ability to generate all cell types of an …

[HTML][HTML] Manipulation of nuclear architecture through CRISPR-mediated chromosomal looping

SL Morgan, NC Mariano, A Bermudez… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Chromatin looping is key to gene regulation, yet no broadly applicable methods to
selectively modify chromatin loops have been described. We have engineered a method for …

Epigenetic resetting of human pluripotency

G Guo, F von Meyenn, M Rostovskaya… - …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Much attention has focussed on the conversion of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) to a
more naïve developmental status. Here we provide a method for resetting via transient …

Prolonged Mek1/2 suppression impairs the developmental potential of embryonic stem cells

J Choi, AJ Huebner, K Clement, RM Walsh, A Savol… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Concomitant activation of the Wnt pathway and suppression of Mapk signalling by two small
molecule inhibitors (2i) in the presence of leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF)(hereafter termed …

[PDF][PDF] New insights into early human development: lessons for stem cell derivation and differentiation

J Rossant, PPL Tam - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Pathways underlying mouse embryonic development have always informed efforts to derive,
maintain, and drive differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells. However, direct …

Pluripotent state transitions coordinate morphogenesis in mouse and human embryos

MN Shahbazi, A Scialdone, N Skorupska, A Weberling… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The foundations of mammalian development lie in a cluster of embryonic epiblast stem cells.
In response to extracellular matrix signalling, these cells undergo epithelialization and …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of transcriptional variability in a large human iPSC library reveals genetic and non-genetic determinants of heterogeneity

I Carcamo-Orive, GE Hoffman, P Cundiff… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Variability in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines remains a concern for disease
modeling and regenerative medicine. We have used RNA-sequencing analysis and linear …